That means that I’ve had to branch out and listen to other pastors. However, as much as I love my father and I have been blessed by his ministry, I want a faith and have striven to craft one that is uniquely my own. I feel the same way about my father so my ears perked up. It’s a tone and tenor that you instinctively know that you can trust. (I’m still growing as a writer so please be patient with me.) His voice emits a kindness that is intangible. So this is going to be hard to communicate, but I will attempt to do so. And when I did, I remembered his name from seeing it as a child so I paid attention to what he had to say. Stanley on television or heard him on the radio. Years later, when I became a Christian for myself, I was on the hunt for various Christian materials that helped me to develop my faith, and somehow or another, I either saw Dr. As I look back, it was more like a seed had been planted in me that would sprout when it was ready. It was a nice church campus but I cannot say it was a stunning display of architecture or anything.
Stanley’s name on the sign in front of the church. We parked on the street next to the building so sometimes I would walk around the grounds closest to the car and look at the buildings. Well, right next door was First Baptist Church of Atlanta. That meant my brothers and I had to occupy ourselves for some time before she showed up.įirst Baptist Church of Atlanta back in the day… There were many times that we had to wait for her to finish her work before she was ready to go.
We only had one family car then and every day before my mother started riding MARTA, my father packed me and my brothers in the car and headed from College Park to downtown to pick her up after work. At the time, the building was located on Peachtree Street. When I was a little girl of about eight or nine years old, my mother worked for DFACS in downtown Atlanta. Stanley’s church before I encountered him. I’ve only encountered and or met very few people who strike me that way. Any desires he has had for success or security or family and other hallmarks of life on earth are only met through his faith in God and God’s will for his life. Stanley but the conviction with which he preaches which includes the intensity of his stance, his hand gestures, his choice of words and the piercing look in his eyes all communicate without question that faith is first in his life. Every thing he does is filtered through the lens of his faith. Stanley grew up without fathers but are outstanding fathers despite the odds! (Both have miraculous stories of God providing for their college education through scholarships when money was scarce during their childhood.) What I love about my father is how faith is the crux of his being. Stanley is because he reminds me of my father. If I’m being honest, a big part of why I love the ministry of Dr. As I was telling this to my mother last week, I felt the hot gathering of tears around my eyes, similarly to how I felt when my father announced that he was stepping down from his position as pastor of my home church Central Christian Church in Atlanta. In fact, next to my father, who is the pastor whose faith in God has most inspired my faith in God, Dr. Charles Stanley was stepping down as pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta after more than 50 years last Sunday, I could not write about it immediately because his ministry has blessed me so very much. What a blow…When I first read the news that Dr.
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